Family Fights $61 Million IRS Tax Bill

First the family of Norman F. Levy, the late New York City real estate tycoon, was swindled out of hundreds of millions of dollars by close friend Bernard L. Madoff, forcing the closing of two Levy charities. Then Levy heirs coughed up $220 million to the Madoff bankruptcy trustee to repay personal withdrawals made before Madoff’s Ponzi fraud collapsed in 2008.

Now, adding insult to injury, the unlucky clan is fighting a $61 million estate tax bill from the Internal Revenue Service.

The whole story is reported in Forbes.com in an article published April 21, 2010

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